Sometimes (specially when attending Microsoft press conferences, in certain),
Office 2007 Ultimate, it;s hassle-free to believe the multiplying Macs and their magical iPad cousins have taken over the portable computing planet.Frank Shaw,
Genuine Office 2007, Microsoft;s Corporate Vice President of Communications, took the abnormal stage — given the Softies; usual reticence to mention their rivals — of sharing a bunch of data on Microsoft and its competitors in various industry segments. Shaw didn;t share a memo he wrote that amplified his message,
Office Professional Plus 2007 Key, but All Things Digital;s Kara Swisher shared it for him.)The PC numbers (collected by a variety of third-party sources cited by Shaw in his blog post), were specially interesting:7.1 million
Projected iPad sales for 201058 million
Projected netbook sales in 2010355 million
Projected PC sales in 2010I still consider blogger Long Zheng made this point best a couple years ago. (In fact,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, I liked his image so much that I ended up using it on my business card.)As telling as these numbers are, I can;t help but wonder when and if we;re going to see Microsoft create a common user interface for the coming crop of slate PCs running not
Windows 7, but Windows Embedded Compact. (If Microsoft doesn;t end up doing this, each of the coming slates running Embedded Compact will have a different look and feel, creating another Windows Mobile situation.)There are some nice new
Windows 7 laptops and netbooks coming to market, but my “magical” device would be a Windows-based slate with some serious battery life and true instant on/off. I want my Winpad,
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